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impress English

Meaning impress meaning

What does impress mean?
Definitions in simple English

impress Verb

— If you impress someone, you make them think good things about you. I'm really impressed by him, particularly his speaking style. The photograph had impressed her so deeply that she started taking photography lessons. — If you impress something on someone, you stress how important it is. The problems impressed upon me the wisdom of getting expert advice before starting any project. — If you impress some marks into something, you make the marks by pushing on it. Scientists found objects that make interesting marks when impressed into the surface of the wet earth.

impress

— verb (= strike) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon This child impressed me as unusually mature This behavior struck me as odd — verb impress positively The young chess player impressed her audience — verb (= ingrain) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us — verb mark or stamp with or as if with pressure To make a batik, you impress a design with wax — verb dye (fabric) before it is spun — noun the act of coercing someone into government service — verb (= print) reproduce by printing — verb (= shanghai) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship The men were shanghaied after being drugged

Synonyms impress synonyms

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Topics impress topics

What do people use impress to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

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Conjugation impress conjugation

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impress · verb

Examples impress examples

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Simple sentences

Tom tried to impress Mary by driving very fast.
I'm trying to impress Tom.
I bet you think I'm just writing that to impress you.
Learn Chinese, not to impress your future boss, but to understand what she is saying.
Who are you trying to impress?
He tries to impress his friends.
Tom tried to impress a girl.
I'm not trying to impress anyone.
Fine dress helps impress, but intelligence makes steady friends.
I was just trying to impress him.
Trying to impress the girls, Martin?
Tom did it just to impress Mary.
Tom could sense that Mary was trying to impress him.
No matter how hard Tom tried, he couldn't impress Mary.
I really want to impress Tom.
He tried to impress her.
She tried to impress him.

Movie subtitles

He wasn't here to impress the locals, much less to hunt giraffe.
Is this the kind of clock that you sent to foreigners to impress them? That is exactly it.
How am I supposed to impress a guy who's basically a saint?
I'm trying to impress Steve the Colorist from work.
This is my chance to impress him.
Have a few drinks. Then you'll have the courage to impress the girl.
Undoubtedly, that will still impress you as being a very stupid reason.
I'm not a Latin and shouting doesn't impress me.
Not that I care, but what kind of a line could he have that would impress you?
Oh, Hugo, it's so impress.
Darling, I'm not trying to impress them, or pretend we're anything that we aren't.
I only came for the free beer and no matter how much you want to impress me.
I must confess, the historical significance of the ballroom doesn't impress me at all.
Didn't he impress you as being rather witty?
You must impress upon him, again.
That won't impress Daddy. He's heard that one before.
This interview is to impress on him the force of your personality.
The second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick.
It's my duty to see he doesn't impress the other half.
And I wish to impress upon all witnesses. that perjury in connection with an official coroner's inquest. is punishable to the full extent of the law.
What are you trying to do, impress Miss Connell?
Don't let her know you're new. Say anything, but impress it on her you've modelled before.
How does your new pastor impress you?
They'll only do it if they think it'll impress the girls.
That doesn't impress me at all.
I don't hope to impress you but we haven't a farthing.
How did he impress you?
Well, as a matter of fact Barnes, I missed my welcoming committee. Wanted to impress Miss Lester.
But what I'm trying to impress on you is this, don't get me mixed up with one of them dumb movie cops.
Flies won't ever impress me again.
I cannot impress upon you too strongly the importance of tonight's task.
That wouldn't impress Rick.
It's my duty to see that he doesn't impress the other half.
Ma'am. I'll impress it on him so there'll be no misunderstanding.

News and current affairs

Koizumi's visit to the shrine, officially presented as that of a private citizen, was intended to impress the Japanese public, regardless of its effects abroad.
Did he wish to impress voters back home with a starring role on a world stage?
The palace didn't impress the American.
Rumors had it that one of Russia's richest men wanted to impress his sweetheart.
Whereas China intends to seduce and impress the world by the number of its Olympic medals, Russia wants to impress the world by demonstrating its military superiority.
As a person, he never failed to impress his many visitors.
Right now, China's focus is not on grand political visions for the future, but on grand visions for a Beijing reborn to impress the world.
A turnaround needs to be visible to the naked eye to impress voters.
But it is unlikely to impress those who believe in the current orthodoxy of Chinese nationalism.
It may be painful for many Americans to hear, and it will not impress my opponents.
Netanyahu, always eager to impress upon the Israeli public the impossibility of making peace with the Palestinians, failed to address the question of what kind of country Israel will become if it continues to rule millions of people against their will.
Experts' attempts to impress upon Americans how difficult Ebola is to transmit, and how unlikely an Ebola epidemic in the US was, fell largely on deaf ears.

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